I'm sure we'll get the same complaint on Star Trek III that the narration was left OFF. Well, get used to the idea now: it wasn't on the original album, so it's not going to be added. On Star Trek II it WAS on the original album, and so it remains. Fortunately we had an alternate to present which was a perfect opportunity to leave the narration off. The same thing has come up on Superman and Twilight Zone: The Movie, with efforts made to retain what was originally done while also finding a way to leave the narration off on a bonus track. (In the case of Superman we elected to have the vocal-free version in the main program for various reasons, not least of which was the fact that we weren't recreating the original LP program anyway.)
If we took out the narration, you and I might be very happy, but a lot of fans of both the original soundtrack and the movie are likely to ask what happened to the narration.
That's why there's the original movie and the original soundtrack. I thought the entire point of the soundtrack was to be different from the album, not limited to it. It's like the Battle in the Mutara Nebula and how they added that ambient cue before Khan fires on the enterprise. That was not on the original soundtrack and I didn't hear anyone complain about that.
If I recall, there was something posted noting that they thought about removing it, but decided to keep it for consistency, and we effectively have a version of the Epilogue and End Credits without Nimoy's voice with track 23, the Alternate version.
Which unfortunately does not sound like the version with Nimoy's narration. Sounds more like a kid's Xylophone than the nice instrumental chimes of the original.
I'm sure we'll get the same complaint on Star Trek III that the narration was left OFF. Well, get used to the idea now: it wasn't on the original album, so it's not going to be added.
Thank you for defusing my worst fear about the upcoming release!
I'm sure we'll get the same complaint on Star Trek III that the narration was left OFF. Well, get used to the idea now: it wasn't on the original album, so it's not going to be added. On Star Trek II it WAS on the original album, and so it remains. Fortunately we had an alternate to present which was a perfect opportunity to leave the narration off. The same thing has come up on Superman and Twilight Zone: The Movie, with efforts made to retain what was originally done while also finding a way to leave the narration off on a bonus track. (In the case of Superman we elected to have the vocal-free version in the main program for various reasons, not least of which was the fact that we weren't recreating the original LP program anyway.)
Mike
What I really want to know is...
Will that dance remix version featured at the end of the STIII GNP CD be included on the new release?
I agree with One Buck. The last cue on the disc gives you a very nice alternate, and it sounds much better than what an instrumental cut of the final version would have.
SO, just archieved the Main and End Titles for this
Since Horner wrote VOICE in the part where Spock is having a voice over then its fine with me that it is included - it seems that Horner wanted it to be there
